911 Conference 2026 – SIG Best Presentation Award
The SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentations. The ‘911 Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded. You can view the...
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Tanja Kovačič, Dr
post-doctoral researcher at University of Galway
Tanja Kovačič is a sociologist based at University of Galway, Ireland. Her interests include the sociology of youth, educational (in)equality, and decoloniality. She uses creative qualitative approaches, including narrative and epistolary inquiry, photovoice, and collaborative autoethnography. Tanja has researched areas such as alternative education in Ireland and decolonising curriculum in higher education.
Tanja Kovačič's contributions
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education is guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018) educational inequality is a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020). On...
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education was guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018), educational inequality remained a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020)....